Foundation Trust Newsletter Issue 4

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Your Health. Your Trust. Your Say.

Your Membership.Issue 4 Winter 2011

Dear Members,

I am delighted to be able to inform you that AndyHardy has been appointed to the substantive role ofChief Executive Officer at UHCW NHS Trust.

This appointment has been made following an open,competitive process with four extremely high calibreindividuals having been short listed and interviewed,and following on from those candidates having metwith internal and external colleagues and partners.

The interview panel consisted of myself as Chairmanof the Trust, two Non-Executive Directors, ChiefExecutive Officer of University Hospital Leicester NHSTrust as an external assessor, and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of the West Midlands Strategic HealthAuthority who recommends to the Secretary of Stateconferral of accountable office of status upon thesuccessful candidate.

Andy Hardy has been Finance Director, Deputy ChiefExecutive Officer, and Interim Chief Executive Officerat UHCW NHS Trust over a period of some 7 years. Heis a local man, highly qualified professionally andpersonally, with a wealth of experience based upon acareer within the National Health Service. I haveworked with him during the entire period of hisemployment with UHCW NHS Trust, and I have no

Appointment of Chief Executive

doubt whatsoever that he will prove to be a highlysuccessful and outstanding Chief Executive Officer ofthe Trust.

We are entering a period of substantial change andchallenge, both within the National Health Service asa whole, and within UHCW NHS Trust in particular. Inparticular, we have embarked upon an application tosecure Foundation Trust status, and that is an absolutestrategic priority for the Trust.

To achieve that enviable status, we need to fulfil awhole range of criteria, the most important of whichmust be around the issue of patient confidence andsafety. We must never forget our absolute obligationto care for those whose lives are placed in our hands.At the same time, there are profound financialchallenges that must be met because of the nationaleconomic situation, and a radical change in thestructure of commissioning.

In all of these matters, and many others I amconfident that Andy Hardy willprovide strong collegiateleadership at an executive levelthroughout the Trust.

With all best wishes,

Philip TownshendChairman

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Welcome Welcome to the winter edition of ‘Your Health.Your Trust. Your Say. Your membership’

University HospitalsCoventry and Warwickshire

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Strategic News

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Network Review ConsultationWe would like to let all members know about the Transport NetworkReview that is being undertaken by CENTRO to gather public opinion onthe transport in Coventry. Twelve sessions are being held over a twoweek period and one of these will be in the main entrance to UniversityHospital on Monday 4th April between 3pm to 7pm. This event is beingheld at the Hospital as it is one of the biggest public transport hubs inthe city. Information will be available and a questionnaire about publictransport will be there for members to complete. Advisors fromCENTRO, Coventry City Council and Clive Robinson, UHCWEnvironmental Risk Manager will also be available to discuss the review.

The future of thehealthcareworkforceThis runs until April 1, 2011and sets out proposals toestablish a new framework fordeveloping the healthcareworkforce and seeks views onthe systems and processes thatwill be needed to support it.

For more information pleasego to:http://consultations.dh.gov.uk/workforce/education-and-training

The new publichealth serviceThis consultation runs untilMarch 31, 2011 and focuseson the proposed key publichealth functions andresponsibilities across thepublic health system and setsout the proposedcommissioning and fundingarrangements for delivery ofpublic health services.

For more information pleasego to:http://consultations.dh.gov.uk/healthy-people/funding-and-commissioning

Information - £2m NewMacular unit open in RugbyUHCW has invested £2m in a new Macular unit specifically aimedat treating those with AMD at St Cross.

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a medical condition whichusually affects older adults and results in a loss of vision in the centre ofthe visual field (the macula) because of damage to the retina.

Sergio Pagliarini, Consultant Ophthalmologist, said: "This fantastic newunit has been specially designed to treat patients who are suffering withAMD. We've installed high tech machinery and it has a highly skilledOphthalmologic team in place."

Andy Hardy, Chief Executive, said: "The opening of the new unitdemonstrates our commitment to the Hospital of St Cross andmaintaining its reputation as a centre of excellence."

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MEP takes a close look at the latest innovation at city’s hospital

Paving the way forwardOur plans to achieve Foundation Trust status form part of a long-term strategy for UHCW NHS Trust. This will guide our future direction and commitment to meet the health needs for the people we serve.

Innovation and research is at the top of the list forMalcolm Harbour MEP who recently paid a visit tothe hospital where he viewed some of the cuttingedge and pioneering technology that makes adifference to local people across Coventry andWarwickshire.

Malcolm Harbour MEP met withChairman Philip Townshendbefore being shown some of thehigh tech scanners in the nuclearmedicine department. He alsovisited the A&E department tofind out how the Trust has useda modern build to provide stateof the art technology to helpsome of the most ill patients andsave lives.

The tour included showcasingthe imaging techniques the Trustuses and the various imagingdevices including the PET/CTscanner. This was one of the firstscanners of its type outsideLondon to be fully integratedinto an NHS imagingdepartment.

Phil Townshend, Chairman atUniversity Hospitals Coventryand Warwickshire NHS Trust,said: “This is the second visit byMalcolm Harbour within the lastsix months. We are extremelygrateful and privileged to havesomeone like Malcolm who is aleading influential figure within

the European parliament visit ourhospital. With a background as achartered engineer and a leadingambassador of innovation wehope that he encourageshospital research and innovationthroughout all parliamentarylevels to help the people ofCoventry to receive world classhealth care.”

Malcolm said: “It was very goodto pay a return visit to thehospital. The Digital Imagingdepartment is phenomenal as areflection of a massive publicinvestment in the NHS andmakes a real difference to thepeople who are treated.”I was also pleased to see thelevel of care and professionalismdisplayed by staff on theaccident and emergencydepartment and the lengths theygo to in order to make surepeople in Coventry, Warwickshireand beyond get the best possiblelife saving care.”

Malcolm is the Chairman of theInternal Market and Consumer

Protection Committee, aninfluential position placing himat the heart of EU policy making.He is a member of STOA, theParliament’s science policy unit,and the Delegation to Japan. AChartered Engineer, Malcolmuses his extensive industrialexperience to work closely withregional business anduniversities, especially toencourage research andinnovation. Through hisleadership of European Forums,he is actively engaged insupporting the Ceramic andAutomotive industries, and inpromoting the digital economy.

Malcolm has led importantprojects in opening the EUmarket for services, car safety,telecoms and innovativeprocurement. He has anHonorary Doctorate from AstonUniversity and is a Guardian ofthe Birmingham Assay Office.

Centre of Excellence


Local resident Leonard Hylands, 82,has been given a new lease of lifeafter receiving a state of the artheart procedure at UniversityHospitals Coventry & Warwickshire(UHCW) NHS Trust.

Mr Hylands had a special device called aCardiac Resynchronisation TherapyDefibrillator (CRT-D) implanted whichprolongs life expectation, improvespatients quality of life and allowsinformation about his heart to bemonitored wirelessly.

The defibrillator part of the device treatsdangerous heart rhythms from thebottom heart chambers by detectingthem and delivering a shock to restorenormal rhythm. Dr Faizel Osman,Consultant Cardiologist /Electrophysiologist at UniversityHospitals Coventry and WarwickshireNHS Trust said: “I tell my patients it’s likehaving a paramedic on your shoulder,watching the heart constantly andtreating any dangerous heart rhythmsautomatically.”

The pacemaker part of the deviceimproves the efficiency of heartcontraction by controlling the timing ofheart contraction of the left and rightheart chambers. As well as treating theheart, the device is wireless which allowsdoctors at UHCW to monitor Mr Hylandsheart without him having to necessarilycome into hospital for his check-up.

Dr Faizel Osman and his team undertookthe procedure to implant the specialised

pacemaker into Mr Hylands. Theprocedure is less invasive than openheart surgery because it is carried outthrough a small incision by the shoulder.Three wires are implanted into the heart:one into the top right heart chamber(right atrium), a second into the bottomright chamber (right ventricle) and athird into the vein that drains the bloodof the heart and sits just outside theheart. The latter leads sit outside the leftbottom chamber (left ventricle). Thespecialised pacemaker not only regulatesthe heart beat, like a normal pacemaker,but also improves the efficiency ofcontraction of the heart by re-synchronizing the chambers of the heartand forcing the heart to beat moreefficiently. This results in significantimprovement in symptoms, especiallybreathlessness, and improved quality oflife.

The device is implanted in a similarfashion to a permanent pacemaker.Since the operation, Mr Hylands isfeeling better than he has been in years.A year ago he found it difficult to walkinto the next room due to severebreathlessness and tiredness, but sincereceiving the device earlier this year hisold energy has returned and the Great-Grandfather is looking forward to thenext chapter in his life.

Remarkably, Leonard was able toundergo the entire procedure as a daycase procedure, arriving and leaving onthe same day. The only outward signwas a small incision by his left shoulder

through which the device wasimplanted.

The procedure was imperative after MrHylands was diagnosed with severeheart failure, which meant that his heartwas not pumping blood effectivelyaround his body, leaving him tired andunable to carry out the most basic tasks.

Patients with severe heart failure can beat risk of dangerous heart rhythms thatare often fatal. If detected by the device,these fast rhythms are treated with alife-saving shock to the heart to restorenormal rhythm.

Because he had already suffered a majorheart attack at the age of 58, MrHylands was considered to be at risk of acardiac arrest in future, which was whyhe had the defibrillator fitted.

Mr Hylands said: “The first time I had aheart attack I was lucky, because Ihappened to be inside a hospital visitinga friend when it happened. Now I nolonger have to worry, because I knowthe defibrillator inside me willautomatically kick in if I ever have anysimilar problems.”

“Obviously you can’t expect to feel thesame as you did as a young man, but Iwould say I feel about 75% of the way Idid then, which isn’t bad going for 82!

“If it weren’t for Dr Osman and his teamI wouldn’t be here today, I want tothank the staff at the hospital for theirfirst class service and my carer JoanGranger.”

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Here at UHCW NHS Trust our mission is to Care, Achieve and Innovate. Whether it’sperforming pioneering surgery or finding new ways to deliver convenient care, we areconstantly pushing the boundaries to provide a truly excellent service. Here are just someareas in which we are breaking new ground.

Warwickshire fatherof two has raretumour removedthrough his nose

A rare tumour which was at thebase of Ian Bradley’s brain neededsurgery which threatened to leavehis face permanently scarred.

Traditional treatment would have beento have opened the skull and removethe tumour by swinging the nose over.But a new type of surgery to Coventryused a telescope to remove the tumourby going up through the nose of the60-year-old from Wellesbourne.

Mr. Bradley first noticed a problemwhen his nose would not stop runningand was constantly congested. He hasasthma so tried sprays but these didnot work. His nose had started to bleedso he was referred to UniversityHospital in Coventry where theythought it may be polyps - but a scanrevealed it was a cancerous tumourwhich had to be removed with surgery.

The retired father of two was referredto Gary Walton at the hospital whorealized that to have a cancer in thatlocation was rare.

Mr. Walton also decided to remove abone with smell receptors located inthe base of the skull. This bone is like ahoneycomb the size of a penny, and ina fifth of cases the tumour can movethrough the honeycomb into the brain.

On August 3 the operation wasperformed using the telescope. As thisis less invasive for the patient it meantthat Mr. Bradley was in surgery for lesstime and able to go home and bereunited with his wife Angela, aged 51after two days.

During the operation Mr Walton foundthe cancer had gone through the boneand replaced it with some taken fromhis septum.

Mr and Mrs Bradley, who are both keengolfers and members of the CoventryGolf Club in Finham are now lookingforward to getting back out on thecourse. Ian said: “Everyone from thecheerful young man who changed ourjugs of water, right up to the surgeonswas fantastic. The hospital has beenamazing.”

“I can breathe again. My sense of smellhas gone but I’m quite happy to livewithout that if it means the tumour isgone. Before my nose was constantlyrunning and if we went out I was veryconscious of it so now it’s a massiverelief.

“I’d like to thank my wife AngelaBradley, Peter Dekker, Gary Walton, MrHussein El-Mghraby and Mr ShazAhmed, who were ably supported by

Gary Walton’s In-Patient SecretarySharron Jones, Dr Read-Jones and DrDesborough at Hastings House GPsurgery in Wellesbourne. In addition, DrFresco and her Radiotherapy Team havebeen marvellous.”

Mr Walton said: “By using this newtechnique it meant we were able toremove the cancerous tumour withoutleaving an unsightly scar on MrBradley’s face.

“This technique is better for patients asthey recover quicker and we knowmany of them can find being scarred insuch a prominent place traumatic. It’sinnovative, provides better outcomesfor our patients and I’m thrilled it hasbeen successful for Mr Bradley.”

Awards


The Trust has been shortlistedfor a further two awards:

• The cross-disciplinary team who managed and implemented the VTE assessment programme and tool across the Trust has been shortlisted for the E-Government National Awards

• The Communications Team has been shortlisted for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Marketing Excellence Awards for the work around Rob Higgins’ use of cryofiltration, in a world first for kidney transplantation.

As a reminder the other awards we have beennominated for are below:

• Consultant Dinesh Verma was runner-up for the Health Enterprise East’s Innovation Award for his invention Personal Ophthalmic Diagnostic System incorporating innovative Tele eye Screening Tool (iTEST) for self/remote monitoring of visual functions.

• Maggie Denton has been shortlisted for a West Midlands NHS Innovation Award 2010 for her privacy and dignity sign.

• Natasha Wileman has been shortlisted for a West Midlands NHS Innovation Award 2010 for her Teggy Mouthcare device which allows patients to brush their teeth without a sink.

• Orthopaedic consultant Richard King’s inventionfor more accurately measuring hips before a replacement operation called “KingMark” has been nominated for an HSJ Award (Acute & Primary Care Innovation category).

• Orthopaedic consultant Richard King was shortlisted for a NHS West Midlands Leadership Award.

• The Communications team was shortlisted for an AHCM Communicating Health Award for Best Media Handling category for the story of world’s first use of cryofiltration in a kidney transplant.

• The Communications team was shortlisted for aCIPR PRide Award for Instilling Pride through Internal Communications.

Some environmental information youmay not know

The site at UHCW has a Sustainable Urban DrainageSystem (SUDS). This refers to the storm watermanagement of the site; due to the Hospital beingbuilt on a flood plain. Some of the car parks have semi-permeable paving. This allows some of the water todrain to the substrata and reduce flooding potential.All car park drainage is fitted with oil interceptors andall surface water entering the storm drains is connectedto the Swales on the southern border of the site nextto the river. These are man made reed beds thatnaturally filter the hydrocarbons from the storm waterbefore releasing it into the river system. The Swalesalso decrease the flow and amount of water releasedto alleviate flooding. Parts of the hospital have greenroofs; where plants are grown to encourage wildlifeand increase the bio-diversity of the area and reducethe speed of rainwater runoff, again reducing floodpotential. The Swales are home to an abundantamount of wildlife and wild plants and are managed ina way that promotes wildlife and wild flower habitats.

Other projects completed and underway

The bank at the side of the CSB has been managedand cultivated into a wild flower haven that has anumber of recorded species which will be increased in2011 adding to the bio-diversity of the area. Thebuildings on site are very energy efficient and they aremonitored to ensure they operate at their most energyefficient. The energy and carbon used on site iscontinually reviewed and examined to look at newways to reduce it. There is work in progress fittingautomated lighting controls to corridors and stairwells.Waste from the site is segregated and where possiblereused. Domestic waste from the site goes to aMaterials Reclamation Facility (MRF) where 75% ofwaste is recycled. Old IT equipment is reused bycharities. Old spectacles are reused in third worldcountries. The site is one of the Citie’s major publictransport hubs having a significant bus hubconnecting, Coventry, West Midlands, Warwickshireand Leicestershire. The Trust is in the final stages offinishing its carbon footprint, a piece of work that willthen continue to be reported year on year. The ITequipment in the CSB has been programmed toautomatically switch off at the end of the day to saveenergy. If you have any other suggestions please let ourFoundation Trust Office know.

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Coventry Lord Mayor takes alook at hospital radio stationCoventry’s Lord Mayor, Brian Kelsey took a lookbehind the scenes at University HospitalsCoventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW),to find out about volunteers who keep the showrunning with music, news and views for hospitalpatients

A group of volunteers at UHCW present a variety ofradio shows for patients in the hospital. It was the firsttime the Lord Mayor came to visit the radio stationand gladly took part in a live radio broadcast interviewwith Colum Nugent a volunteer who presents themorning show on hospital radio.

Colum said: “It was a great pleasure to have the LordMayor at the radio station today, despite the weathertaking a turn he showed his support for all thevolunteers. I’m sure our listeners in the hospital werepleased to hear from him and hope he enjoyed hisvisit with us.”

Listeners at the hospital had a chance to hear aboutthe Lord Mayor’s experience of radio interviews andalso about the work of the volunteers who run the

radio station. He highly-praised them for theirdedication and commitment in keeping patientsentertained and informed about the latest news ofCoventry during their stay at UHCW.

Lord Mayor said: “I was truly impressed by the workof the volunteers at the hospital radio, my wife’s alsoa volunteer so I understand the dedication andcommitment the volunteers make in supporting ourhospitals. My colleague, Councillor Harjinder SinghSehmi introduced me to hospital radio and as well askeeping on top of his council duties he spends timevolunteering at the hospital radio.”

Councillor Sehmi said: “It’s the first time the LordMayor has visited the hospital radio and it’s great toknow how much he supports us in our volunteeringroles. Almost 99% of patients in the hospital listen toour station and their friends, relatives and carers oftensend us requests for their favourite tunes to beplayed.”

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